– Richard Thomas –

I Got Into Qualia Nous 2!

Posted on August 23, 2023     3 Comments

It’s official, I can announce it now—I’ve gotten into Qualia Nous 2 with my story, “Choose Your Own Demise,” co-written with Repo Kempt (an amazing author, and my arctic advisor on Incarnate). It’s a variation on a “choose-your-own-path” adventure story and it was a blast to write. With over 3,000 submissions, I’m so happy this got in. I’ve worked with Michael many times, and it’s always been a pleasure! Stoked, for sure. What a great TOC so far:

Table of Contents:

“Interstices” (found poem(s) from Vol. 1 as an intro) – Pat R. Steiner
“A Story That Must Be Read Alone but Never at Night” (short story) – Chuck Palahniuk
“Shattered in Daylight” (poem) – Linda D. Addison
“We Come Apart and Then We Arrive” (short story) – Eric LaRocca
“Here We Are” (poem) – Elizabeth Massie
“An Invitation for the Uninvited” (novelette) – Scott Edelman
“Set Me on Fire” (poem) – Cynthia Pelayo
“Twice as Many Stars” (short story) – Paul Michael Anderson
“Playground of the Gods” (poem) – Christina Sng
“The Fallen Man” (short story) – Geneve Flynn
“Lullabies of a Distant World” (poem) – Pedro Iniguez
“Other” (short story) – Gordon Linzner
“Vessel” (poem) – Lee Murray
“Come Find Me” (short story) – Zoje Stage
“Self-Discovery” (poem) – Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
“The Song of Fools” (novelette) – Patrick Freivald
“A Particle Accelerator Love Song” (poem) – Brent Baldwin
“Blue-Red-Green” (novelette) – Peter Hagelslag
“Sacrificing for the Path of Orbits” (poem) – Christopher Collingwood
“Investigations into Hypnagogia” (novelette) – Sachin Baliga
“My Memory Is as Time Is” (poem) – Mark Granger
“The Infinite Hourglass” (short story) – Kehkashan Khalid
“Common Sense, No More” (prose poem) – Maxwell I. Gold
“The Sum of Our Parts Needs Only One Heart” (short story) – Michael Gonzalez
“Alive / Real / Exists / Human” (collection of poems) – Eugen Bacon
“Bilocation in Liminal Space” (short story) – Erik Williams
“Danse Sanguinaire” (poem) – Deborah L. Davitt
“Choose Your Own Demise” (short story) – Richard Thomas & Repo Kempt
“Crazy” (poem) – Jeff Oliver
“Stuff She Put in a Box for Her New Room” (novelette) – Gary A. Braunbeck
“What Weird Weather We Had” (poem) – Josh Malerman
“Oil on Water” (short story) – Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
“Nightmare” (poem) – L. Marie Wood
“Once, I Dreamed I Was Dead” (short story) – Rebecca J. Allred
“Paranoid: A Chant” (poem) – Stephen King
“Lucid Interval” (novelette) – Michael J. Riser
“Deeply You” (poem) – Max Booth III
“The Thing That Laughs in the Dark” (short story) – Gabino Iglesias
“Some Days, Most Days” (poem) – Kaaron Warren
“Dog-Whistles” (short story) – Cody Goodfellow
“Ghost in the Machine” (poem) – Karen Poppy
“Everyday Horror” (short story) – Steve Rasnic Tem
“Me” (poem) – Jamal Hodge